Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was sentenced to death by a Damascus court on Tuesday, after being found guilty on charges of murder, torture and incitement to murder. His brother Maher ...

Bashar al-Assad is the former president of Syria who held power for decades before his government was overthrown during a rebel offensive. Assad fled to Moscow and was granted political asylum after ...

Bashar al-Assad is living in Moscow under tight restrictions imposed by Russia nearly a year after fleeing Syria, with his movements limited and public appearances banned, according to multiple ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A photo released by the official Syrian Arab news agency (SANA) on 16 February shows then Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ...

Former air officers, including an air force general, were arrested in a series of operations.

The judge who sentenced Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia last week was himself sentenced to death in absentia by the same regime years earlier. Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan ...

A Syrian court has sentenced ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia, after convicting him of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during the country's civil war. It is the ...

The ancient city, an early stronghold of opposition to Bashar al-Assad’s oppressive regime, was ravaged by a government crackdown. New York Times correspondents in Homs spoke to people who were ...

Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, a top Muslim religious figure during former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of crimes including inciting ...

Tripoli intercepted 100,000 tablets bearing the late Libyan leader's image shipped via Europe in a Renault Master van, while Benghazi's investigators separately seized captagon tablets assessed to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wassim al-Assad, cousin of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is led into a defendant's cage in a Damascus courtroom for his ...

This month, thousands of Syrians poured into the streets in the broadest protests since al-Assad’s fall. Unlike under his ...